#merely

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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.


Paul Samuelson


#change #criticism #explains #interest #japan

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.


George Saunders


#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.


John Scott


#alive #books #borrow #debates #face

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.


Arthur Smith


#cleverness #content #day #display #exists

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.


Stendhal


#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.


Arthur Hays Sulzberger


#any #assists #i #look #making

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.


Rabindranath Tagore


#merely #sea #standing #staring #water

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.


Rabindranath Tagore


#education #existence #give #harmony #highest

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.


Hermann Goering


#fat #guns #makes #merely #powerful

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.


Oscar Wilde


#delightful #i #merely #out #simply